Lewis Grassic Gibbon Ordine dei libri

After a mid-air plane crash, Clair Stranlay, Sir John Mullaghan, and Keith Sinclair end up 25,000 years back in time to the lost island of Atlantis... "It startled the crew of the Rio tramp and there was a momentary scurry of grimy off-watches reaching the deck, and a great upward gape of astounded eyes and mouths. Then the second engineer, a knowledgeable man, voiced explanations..." (Excerpt) . Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell (1901-1935), a Scottish writer famous for his contribution to the Scottish Renaissance and portrayal of strong female characters.

Set against the backdrop of 73 BC, this powerful narrative chronicles the slave uprising led by the gladiator Spartacus against the Roman Empire. The author, with impressive historical knowledge, weaves a tale that blends fiction and adventure while highlighting themes of exploitation and oppression. Celebrated as one of the great historical novels of the twentieth century, it serves as an inspiration for those who resist tyranny, showcasing the author's mastery in vivid storytelling.

Set in early 20th century Scotland, this trilogy follows the life of Chris Guthrie, offering a vivid portrayal of her struggles and triumphs. The three novels—Sunset Song, Cloud Howe, and Grey Granite—explore themes of identity, landscape, and social change. Celebrated for its rich language, the first novel is considered a classic, while a comprehensive glossary of the Scots dialect enhances the reading experience, making the cultural context accessible to all readers.

Source: Product Description Introduced by Tom Crawford. The compelling saga of Chris Guthrie is continued in this, the middle volume of Grassic Gibbon's great trilogy A Scots Quair. The scene has moved to the small community of Segget, where, after Ewan's death in the First World War, Chris has come to live with her second husband, Robert Colquhoun, an idealistic and liberal minister. Cloud Howe offers a brilliant evocation of small town life set against post-war economic hardship and the General Strike of 1926. Chris loses her baby and has to fight for a sense of her own identity in a world where only the land-and Chris herself-seem to endure with honour. Robert Colquhoun, wracked by war-ruined lungs, has to wrestle with his ideals and a spiritual crisis which will eventually kill him. Grassic Gibbon was already living in England when he wrote his great work. The incomparable artistry of Cloud Howe makes his self-imposed exile all the more poignant

Chris Guthrie and her son, Ewan, have come to the industrial town of Duncairn, where life is as hard as the granite of the buildings all around them. These are the Depression years of the 1930s, and Chris is far from the fields of her youth in Sunset Song. In a society of factory owners, shopkeepers, policemen, petty clerks and industrial labourers, 'Chris Caledonia' must make her living as bets she can by working in Ma Cleghorn's boarding house. Ewan finds employment in a steel foundry and tries to lead a peaceful strike against the manufacture of armaments. In the face of violence and police brutality, his socialist idealism is forged into something harder and fiercer as he becomes a communist activist ready to sacrifice himself, his girlfriend and even the truth itself, for the cause. Grey Granite is the last and grimmest volume of the Scots Quair trilogy. Chris Guthrie is one of the great characters in Scottish Literature and no reader of Sunset Song and Cloud Howe should miss this last rich chapter in her tale.

Sunset Song is the first and most celebrated of Grassic Gibbon's great trilogy, A Scot's Quair. It provides a powerful description of the first two decades of the century through the evocation of change and the lyrical intensity of its prose. It is hard to find any other Scottish novel of the last century which has received wider acclaim and better epitomises the feelings of a nation.

Nine Against the Unknown is the story of nine great explorers who in their deliberate adventuring into the unknown to search for the Fortunate Land, the Isles of Youth, the Golden City -all legendary lands rising originally, in the dawn of history, from a Mediterranean myth -achieved the greater measure of man´s conquest of the earth. They tell of Leif Ericsson and his coming to America four hundred and eighty years before Columbus; of Marco Polo´s great land journeys to Cathay and beyond; of Columbus, led by a dozen rumours, sailing across the Atlantic; of Cabeza de Vaca, that enigmatic Spaniard who searched North America for the Golden City of Ciboa; of Magellan, the first to reach the East Indies from the west; of Vitus Bering, the discoverer of Bering Strait, and his search for Gama Land in the North Pacific; of Richard Burton´s innumerable quests in three continents for the golden unknown land; and of Nansen´s great drift in the Fram towards the last refuge of the Fortunate Land, the North Pole. This is a record of geographical exploration from a time when many believed that the future of humankind lay in the recovery of freedom -of spirit, of belief, of society.

The Speak of the Mearns, on which Lewis Grassic Gibbon was working just before his untimely death, seemed set to become a worthy successor to Sunset Song, sharing much of the autobiographical content of the earlier novel. The setting is a close rural community, sharply observed by a growing boy. The "speak", the gossip of the region, is as intense and as bitingly observed as elsewhere in Gibbon's work, but the actual territory is moved from Arbuthnott to other parishes nearby. Now the seaa plays a part in invoking the atmosphere of childhood remembered.

Po manželovej smrti sa Chris Colquohounová presťahuje spolu so synom Ewanom do priemyselného mesta Duncair. Stane sa spolumajiteľkou penziónu. Ewan preruší štúdium a nastúpi ako učeň do huty Gowans a Gloag. Chris so synom si musia privykať na cudzie prostredie, Ewan sa po počiatočných konfliktochs okolím prisposobí. Stretnutie s učiteľkou Ellen Johnsovou preňho znamená nielen zážitok prvej lásky, ale aj otvorenie cesty k robotníckemu hnutiu. Chris celkom nepreruší spojenie so Seggetom, v ktorom predtým bývala - do penziónu sa nasťahuje Sim Leslie, prezývaný Laba a neskor aj stolár Ake Ogilvie. Keď Ewana zatknú pre účasť na štrajku, mučia ho a súdia, Ake, ktorý sa o Chris uchádza, ho pomože dostať z vazenia. Chris sa zaňho z vďačnosti vydá. Ich cesty sa však zakrátko rozchádzajú. Ake odchádza do Kanady, lebo pochopil, že Chris si nedokáže získať, Ewan žije vlastným životom a Chris sa rozhodne pre návrat do kraja, v ktorom sa narodila a ktorý nikdy neprestala ľúbiť - do Cairndhu.

V druhom diele sledujeme osudy Chris Colquohounovej v malom mestečku Segget, do ktorého sa presťahovala s manželom a synom Ewanom. Sposob jej života sa od základu mení - zo ženy roľníka sa stáva predstaviteľkou malomestskej smotánky, ktorej každučký krok sleduje verejnosť. A je to, pravda, príležitosť, aby autor uplatnil svoju prenikavú iróniu a Šťavnatý humor. Chrisin druhý manžel Robert je rojko, ktorý sa usiluje prispieť k povzdvihnutiu mestečka. Chýli sa k veľkej svetovej kríze, Robert nedokáže stáť bokom a rovnako nestojí bokom ani Chris. Ich vzájomný vzťah sa však pod vplyvom vonkajších udalostí čoraz vačšmi ochladzuje, Robert, bezradný pred krutou tvárou skutočnosti, sa uchyľuje k mysticizmu. Nasledujú tragické udalosti a Chris sa znovu ocitá sama.